Streptococcus pyogenes sclB encodes a putative hypervariable surface protein with a collagen-like repetitive structure

Microbiology

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 419-429

  Whatmore, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacterial surface protein; Genetic variation; Short sequence repeats; Tandem repeats

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COLLAGEN; CYTOSINE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENESIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROTYPE; START CODON; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TANDEM REPEAT; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 0035135740     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-147-2-419     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Sequencing emm-specific PCR products for routine and accurate typing of group A streptococci
2. Supercoiled protein motifs: The collagen triple-helix and the α-helical coiled coil
3. Short-sequence DNA repeats in prokaryotic genomes
4. Occurrence and structure-function relationship of pentameric short sequence repeats in microbial genomes
5. Collagen-like sequences stabilize homotrimers of a bacterial hydrolase
6. Complete nucleotide sequence of the streptococcal C5a peptidase gene of Streptococcus pyogenes
7. Prediction of secondary structure of proteins from their amino acid sequence
8. Serum opacity factor is a major fibronectin-binding protein and a virulence determinant of M type 2 Streptococcus pyogenes
9. Pathogenesis of Group A streptococcal infections
10. Signal peptidases and signal peptide hydrolases
11. Affinity of fibronectin to collagen of different genetic types and to fibrinogen
12. The Streptococcus sanguis platelet aggregation-associated protein. Identification and characterization of the minimal platelet-interactive domain
13. Conservation of a hexapeptide sequence in the anchor region of surface proteins from Gram-positive cocci
14. Protein H - A bacterial surface protein with affinity for both immunoglobulin and fibronectin type III domains
15. Analysis of the accuracy and implications of a simple method for predicting the secondary structure of globular proteins
16. Distribution and antigenicity of fibronectin binding proteins (SfbI and SfbII) of Streptococcus pyogenes clinical isolates from the Northern Territory, Australia
17. Nucleotide substitutions and small-scale insertion produce size and antigenic variation in Group A streptococcal M1 protein
18. The signal peptide
19. Molecular switches - The ON and OFF of bacterial phase variation
20. Size variation in group A streptococcal M protein is generated by homologous recombination between intragenic repeats
21. Analysis of a second bacteriophage hyaluronidase gene from Streptococcus pyogenes: Evidence for a third hyaluronidase involved in extracellular enzymatic activity
22. Streptococcal adhesion and colonization
23. Role of fibronectin-binding MSCRAMMs in bacterial adherence and entry into mammalian cells
24. Role of the hypervariable region in streptococcal M proteins: Binding of a human complement inhibitor
25. Protein secondary structure prediction based on position-specific scoring matrices
26. Spontaneous M6 protein size mutants of group A streptococci display variation in antigenic and opsonogenic epitopes
27. Cell-wall-associated proteins in Gram-positive bacteria
28. Characterisation of a novel fibronectin-binding surface protein in group A streptococci
29. A simple method for displaying the hydropathic character of a protein
30. SFS, a novel fibronectin-binding protein from Streptococcus equi, inhibits the binding between fibronectin and collagen
31. Group B streptococci escape host immunity by deletion of tandem repeat elements of the alpha C protein
32. Surface proteins of Gram-positive bacteria and mechanisms of their targeting to the cell wall envelope
33. Identification of prokaryotic and eukaryotic signal peptides and prediction of their cleavage sites
34. A group A streptococcal Enn protein potentially resulting from intergenomic recombination exhibits atypical immunoglobulin binding characteristics
35. DNA sequence of the serum opacity factor of group A streptococci: Identification of a fibronectin-binding repeat domain
36. M3 protein with close sequence homology to M12 protein binds fibrinogen, albumin, fibronectin but not to any subclass of IgG - Localisation of binding regions
37. Streptococcal Genome Sequencing Project
38. Simple sequence repeats in the Helicobacter pylori genome
39. Repeat-associated phase variable genes in the complete genome sequence of Neisseria meningitidis strain MC58
40. Sequence and structural characteristics of the trypsin-resistant T6 surface protein of group A streptococci
41. Protein F: An adhesin of Streptococcus pyogenes bindings fibronectin via two distinct domains
42. Sequence evolution of the porB gene of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Neisseria meningitidis; evidence of positive Darwinian selection
43. Opacity genes in Neisseria gonorrhoeae: Control of phase and antigenic variation
44. Phase variation in Bordetella pertussis by frameshift mutation in a gene for a novel two-component system
45. Domain structure and conserved epitopes of Sfb protein, the fibronectin binding adhesin of Streptococcus pyogenes
46. Horizontal gene transfer in the evolution of group A streptococcal emm-like genes: Gene mosaics and variation in the Vir regulon
47. Noncongruent relationships between variation in emm gene sequences and the population genetic structure of group A streptococci
48. Molecular population genetic analysis of the enn subdivision of group A streptococcal emm-like genes: Horizontal gene transfer and restricted variation among enn genes
49. Structural properties and evolutionary relationships of PspA, a surface protein of Streptococcus pneumoniae as revealed by sequence analysis